Requiems reviewed again . . .

[realthog]

The customer reviews on Amazon.com are frequently less Times Literary Supplement, more . . . well, lavatory wall, to be honest, but every now and then someone posts a review there that seems pretty professional. A reader called John L Murphy (who I see by clicking the relevant link has reviewed extensively on the Amazon site) has just given the full treatment to Requiems for the Departed (edited by Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone and published by Morrigan, as if you needed telling).

Naturally everyone's agape to find out what he said about my contribution to the anthology, "The Life Business", so here we go:

Grant draws upon his [. . .] teenage stint as a British cadet to integrate disturbing and emotional reveries into his shape-shifting characters. "The Life Business" haunted me more than most previous ones, try as they might to shock or rattle. Grant, as a fantasy master, successfully conjures otherworldly senses into his narrative eerily.

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[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

It's been put here now, so I'm thinking it might have been a bit more than the lavatory wall review aspect...

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/128709-requiems-for-the-departed-by-gerard-brennan-and-mike-stone/

;)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

To judge by the paragraph on moi, that's not the same review -- not sure without checking further if he's just substantially copyedited it or if it's a rewrite. But the para I so vainly quote above has become:

In the closing story, “The Life Business”, the fantasy master who writes as John Grant draws upon his [. . .] real-life teenage stint as a British cadet. He integrates disturbing and emotional reveries into his shape-shifting characters. His story rattled me the most. Grant eerily channels otherworldly senses into a psychological study of identity.